{"id":2302,"date":"2002-11-20T16:44:39","date_gmt":"2002-11-20T23:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2002-11-20T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2002-11-20T23:44:39","slug":"legonomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/11\/20\/legonomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Legonomics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gold is dumb. What can you do with it? Gild stuff — lilies and Capitol buildings and whatever — or cram it into your cavities, that’s about it. So I’m glad the U.S. dropped the gold standard back in, um, back in whenever they dropped the gold standard. But I can’t seem to get fired up about the dollar either. Dollars are all the same boring color, they get wadded up and torn, and, frankly, I think Andrew Jackson was having a serious Bad Hair Day when he snapped his picture for the twenty. Plus the value of the dollar keeps going down. (Apparently it used to go up too, but that was back in the late 90’s when people still thought e-potbelliedpigs-online.com was a pretty good idea).<\/p>\n

But I was listening to Marketplace<\/a> the other day, and they said something interesting: no matter what the state of the economy, toy makers generally do pretty well — after all, kids don’t give a rat’s ass if Lucent missed their third quarter projections by 7\/15 of a cent, all they know is they need a Fashion Polly Sparkle Style House<\/a> and, by God, they need it NOW!<\/p>\n

That’s what gave me Great Idea #57709: the US should make the four pronged square Lego the standard unit of US currency. The bigger Legos will be worth more, and the smaller Legos will be like coins, and those huge Lego plates will be, like, $1000 bills. We’ll also outlaw those stupid “Mindstorm” Legos because they are new-fangled and I don’t understand them.<\/p>\n

This plan has so many good points that I can’t even begin to list them and yet now I will:<\/p>\n